The Cahokians are known to have ritually killed young men and women, interring their bodies along with those of important leaders to accompany them to the afterlife. Artisans carved figurines in stone, though apparently nothing on the scale of the Waubansee Stone. But despite the similarities of their temple mounds and sacrifices, there are no proven links between the Mound Builders and the Aztec or Maya. Still, this doesn't explain what the boulder was doing in Chicago, not known as a mound-building center. As circumstantial evidence has mounted in recent decades of routine yet historically unrecorded transoceanic visits to the Americas for perhaps thousands of years prior to Columbus's celebrated trip in , some researchers have looked to Europe and the Near East to help solve the stone's sphinxlike riddle.
The rock's location on the riverside near Lake Michigan, they say, provides a good clue. Could others have made the journey long before them, stopping here to carve the Waubansee Stone and using it to hold their vessels in place? Anderson founded the Leif Ericson Society in Chicago in , and for decades he tried to convince people that the Vikings should be recognized as the discoverers of America.
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Though the society dissolved when Anderson died in , the Evanston resident lived to witness his vindication. That Vikings explored and tried to settle the New World years before Columbus is no longer disputed--Ericson established a short-lived colony in northern Newfoundland in about Yet Anderson and others maintain that Norsemen ventured deeper into the continent, leaving a trail of artifacts the authenticity of these artifacts is debated.
The Waubansee Stone, Anderson points out, has a small hole on each side "similar to hundreds found on boulders in Minnesota and surrounding states, believed to have anchored Viking ships" with metal pins and hawsers made of braided vines. There must be a better explanation than that suggested. The rock's two side holes, both two inches deep, wouldn't seem to serve any purpose for a fountain; neither would a four-inch hole between the face's parted lips.
A drawing of Arnold's fountain in Hurlbut's Chicago Antiquities shows a pipe sticking out of the top of the stone, yet today there's no opening or drain in the basin. It's possible, however, that the Chicago Historical Society altered the piping system when it transformed the relic into a drinking fountain before sealing it up altogether. I called Marion Dahm, a farmer and "self-educated archaeologist" in Chokio, Minnesota. The year-old Dahm claims to have found some Viking mooring stones over the last four decades throughout the Great Plains states and Canada, some weighing 60 tons.
Many are located along rivers and lakes, but some sit in open fields that were immersed centuries ago, says Dahm. Norsemen didn't bring the stones with them, he believes, but used existing ones. They all have "rounded-triangular" holes bored several inches into their sides that suggest the use of flat-bladed chisels--according to Dahm, tests on some holes have indicated the presence of a type of iron forged in medieval northern Europe.
But would the Vikings have carved faces into the rocks? Dahm recalls that Anderson once sent him close-up photographs of the Waubansee Stone. But I think it's a goddamn crime we have to continually fight the Minnesota Historical Society. Anderson battled academic types as well. He writes in his book that he couldn't convince geologists to look into the questionable origins of the "virtually-ignored" Waubansee Stone. He pressed his mooring-hole case in a letter to the Tribune's now defunct "Action Line" column, but the Chicago Historical Society via the columnist stuck with the fountain story, insisting that the holes were "different than the ones Anderson's letter to the Tribune sparked the interest of Ancient American magazine's Frank Joseph, though Joseph didn't actually view the Waubansee Stone till the early s, when he embarked on a career in "cultural diffusionist" studies--an unorthodox field that supposes pre-Columbian contacts between the Old and New Worlds started in the late Stone Age between and BC.
Joseph, who's written several books, including Atlantis in Wisconsin and Sacred Sites of the West, thought the boulder was "a remarkable artifact," and decided to investigate it after founding Ancient American in Colfax, Wisconsin, eight years ago. Colonial Mill or Viking Lighthouse? From Anderson, he'd learned of 19th-century rumors of a second although unsculpted boulder along the river about feet west of the original one, supposedly dumped in the water when a bridge was built in the s.
Two monoliths suggest that vessels could have been tied fore and aft. Other things don't square with traditional accounts, Joseph tells me. The face "is a well-made piece of work, a masterful sculpture," and he doubts that a "common frontier soldier" had the time and talent to carve such an image into solid granite, which is hard to sculpt. A Semitic people closely related to the Hebrews, the Phoenicians called themselves Canaanites, and modern researchers believe they were the descendants of two groups, the early Canaanites, who inhabited the coast of present-day Lebanon, and seafarers, who invaded the region around BC.
They were mainly seagoing merchants--fearless sailors and navigators who ventured into uncharted regions, guarding the secrets of trade routes, discoveries, and currents. They established colonies throughout the Mediterranean--including Carthage, their greatest city, in North Africa--and even beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, gaining access to the Atlantic. The Phoenicians were probably the first to sail around Africa, in about BC, and may have even reached Cornwall, England, to mine tin.
The culture went into decline after Carthage was conquered by Rome in BC, but it's only natural to wonder if the Phoenicians managed to get to the Americas, perhaps in search of trade and minerals. Many believe they did. Beginning in the s the late Barry Fell, a Harvard biologist turned linguist, popularized the ancient-settlers theme in such books as America B. He and other diffusionists claim that stone tablets unearthed since the 19th century in Brazil, as well as in New England, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Iowa, bear Phoenician inscriptions; one Brazilian tablet allegedly recounts a voyage around BC.
Of course, most conventional archaeologists, who believe that indigenous Americans were free of cross-cultural contact before , don't buy this stuff; they've branded the artifacts frauds and their promoters pseudoscientists at best. If the Phoenicians explored America, what would stop them from coming to Chicago? He says he began to "find parallels" between the Waubansee Stone and other artifacts. The other thing, they sculpted people with closed eyes," which signified death. They also wore chin beards, he notes. But if Phoenicians had sailed up the Mississippi en route to the upper Great Lakes where they mined copper and iron, as Joseph and others imagine, how likely is it that they could have portaged their foot freighters through northeastern Illinois?
There's abundant evidence of that. Most telling to Joseph is the basin. He rejects the notion that it was a corn mortar--why would anyone need a boulder for that? Joseph surmises that ancient sailors moored their ore-laden ships to the rock, at some point sculpted the font and the face--possibly meant to portray the favor-granting deity Moloch--then sacrificed infants on it. He writes, "It is a most important ritual dedicated to the gods for safe passage home during the long, perilous voyage to the Mississippi River, down to the Gulf of Mexico and out across the Atlantic Ocean toward Africa and Carthage.
Alternatively for mezza lo , you use magnet power to move block onto the switch and leave it there. Move the sliding block back to the station where the crystal is, leave a bomb next to the crystal, change powers and use the slow time on the laser, get onto the moving block before the laser come back on, get sword, use arrow to shoot crystal and move block while standing on it, now in the position where the block is on the switch, change powers to bomb and detonate, this will then move you to the final room, all while riding the moving block.
I found one near the flat trees on a small mountain range south west of the plateau. Basically removing all clothes and weapons and standing on the little platform during a blood moon makes a new shrine appear. If you do have this listed here or somewhere else then sorry but I think I gave a big enough look. I hope this helps. Farosh will sometimes spawn at later times, had him spawn at 1am a few times for me, other times 12am. After completing all the ancient songs mentioned in his journal, he returns to Rito village. Go around the map and kill a lot of bigger mini bosses. I am not sure this is necessarily true.
Is there ANY way of forcing an activation? Wow, the night that i found the Under a red moon quest for me, happened to be the night of a blood moon…. For the quest to get the lightening to strike the mound, you can also drop a metal weapon there and just jump off the mound. Once lightening strikes it and the shrine is revealed, you can just pick you weapon up. Lighting a camp fire works to get blood moon you only have to wait a few mins.
I lit a fire to wait for night stood right on the pedestal at 9pm and shrine rose out of the ground it also worked with my sword equipped. A good thing to have for the song of storms is rubber armor with or with out the thunder helm I found that you need at lest the one for ultimate protection. Kass under the title so I know for sure I talked to Kass before starting the quest, or else it would say! I also did Rito Village Quest: The kids are back at the village singing by the shrine.
What is going on? I have all shrines completed as well. It seems like I missed something. I forgot to talk to him somewhere? How can that be? The only quest not showing up is the labyrinth trial and I already completed it. Where is kass located at for this trial? The Shrine Quests automatically begin once you land on the maze floor.
By the way, maybe you just completed two out of three labyrinths. Your email address will not be published. March 5, at 4: March 5, at 9: March 5, at March 6, at 3: August 27, at 4: March 8, at March 6, at 6: March 7, at 2: March 6, at 7: March 14, at 3: March 6, at 8: March 6, at Its located south of the Tabantha bridge stable.
March 7, at 3: March 9, at 3: March 20, at 6: Can you make a guide about where to get allyhe Shrine quests and how to solve them?
March 10, at 4: March 13, at March 13, at 4: If the asphalt covering was put down 25 years ago to improve accessibility, it has probably kept the soil and the casque undisturbed all this time. But now it presents an obstacle. Any test of this solution will require cutting away a square of asphalt with the permission and active participation of the park staff. Please do not dig in Golden Gate Park without permission! We have received several reports of unauthorized people digging holes around the park.
That kind of behavior damages a public resources and creates understandable bad feelings toward this whole adventure. The Secret is only meant to be a fun exercise that gets people outside, exploring new places. There is no "treasure" to be had for finding a casque. So please take the time to work through the proper channels and solve the puzzles in a way that does no harm to the local landscape. Casque 2 was almost certainly buried in White Point Garden, a small, historical park at the southern tip of the Charleston peninsula.
To understand the layout of monuments and other features in the park as they existed in , see our White Point Garden Landmarks page. We have a Proposed Solution for Image 2 and Verse 6 , but the chances of recovery are very slim. Evidence suggests that, following the removal of the Maine monument, the city excavated into the ground and poured a wider, underground concrete base to support the much taller and less stable Moultrie monument.
If so, this means that the casque was almost certainly destroyed by a backhoe during the excavation in The sad reality is that this one is probably gone for good. It's a beautiful spot but that selection is going to make the recovery a little bit difficult. Historical records show that the amphitheater was going through a period of decline when Preiss hid his casques in the early 's. He probably had no trouble digging a hole without anyone asking questions. Unfortunately for us, the theatre has since been upgraded and it receives much more attention and care.
Security cameras will probably make a secret dig impossible. The search for Casque 4 has been completed! The casque was found in Cleveland in We have a partial write-up for the Solution to Image 4 and Verse 4 , but it could use more photos and more detail. Please add any additional information you have! It will help us learn more about these puzzles and about how we can solve the rest of them.
Wiki user Lori Sobota has provided a collection of photos showing the Greek Cultural Garden in Cleveland where the casque was found. The search for Casque 5 has been completed! The casque was found in Chicago in We have a partial write-up for the Solution to Image 5 and Verse 12 , but it could use more photos and more detail. Casque 6 was almost certainly buried at the base of a tall pine tree on the grounds of the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Searchers were meant to line up the water jets of a fountain with the white dome of a building "like moonlight in teardrops" and follow that line down to "the base of a tall tree.
Casque 7 was almost certainly buried in downtown New Orleans on the site where the former St. Charles Hotel once stood. The hotel, which first opened in , was once one of the major landmarks of the southeastern United States. It resembled the U. Capital building and had a dome that tourists could visit to look out over the whole city. After the first two versions of the hotel were destroyed by fire, the third St.
Charles opened in and stood for over 75 years until it was torn down in The destruction of the St. Charles Hotel sparked an outcry and led to the creation of new groups and new laws intended to preserve the historic architecture of New Orleans. In setting up his puzzle in , Preiss included an obscure quote about the majesty of the former hotel.
Arrows along the edge of the clock face were meant to take searchers on either of two walking routes through the streets of the Central Business District from the Piazza d'Italia constructed in to the parking lot where the hotel once stood. Charles was constructed on the site of the former hotel in In or , when Byron Preiss visited Houston to bury a casque, there was an antique steam locomotive Number prominently positioned on the southern edge of McGovern Lake in Hermann Park.
Most of the locomotive was painted black, but the nose was a bright, shiny silver that made it visible from a long ways away. Preiss used a line of sight starting at the nose of the locomotive and passing through a fountain to guide searchers to the burial spot on the far side of the lake. But in , the same year The Secret was published, the city repositioned both the fountain and the train, making the puzzle vastly more difficult to solve! To understand how the area has changed over the past 35 years, see our Hermann Park history page.
Amazingly, despite all the major renovations of the past 35 years, there is still a chance that the casque may be intact although the hiding spot has now been covered by a path. We have posted a very detailed Solution for Image 8 and Verse 1 that walks through the different clues and narrows the spot down to about a square yard. If you are interested in pursuing the recovery of this casque, you will need to somehow get the full and active participation of the Hermann Park Conservancy and Houston's Parks and Recreation Department. At a minimum, you'll need to have a detailed plan showing how you'll do the dig, how you'll limit disruption to the park, and how you'll repair the damage to the path when you are done.
Ordinary digging tools aren't going to get through the path, so you might have to rent something like a concrete saw or even a Bobcat mini loader to clear the surface. It won't be easy or cheap but a dedicated searcher might be able to get it done. In particular, the "legeaster dog" seems like a very specific detail to confirm the neighborhood.
It would be difficult to dig in a crowded downtown location without being observed, so that might explain why this is the only puzzle that tells us to "get permission to dig out. Those places would have made it far easier for Preiss to dig without being observed, but they would also make it less clear why searchers should get permission before digging.
The search for Casque 10 is focused on Lake Park in Milwaukee. Although the image appears to have many references to the downtown area, the reference to "92 steps" in the verse would appear to focus our attention directly on the Grand Staircase. We have identified a spot at the base of a tree that would agree with both the image and the verse.
We have a Proposed Solution for Image 10 and Verse 8. We need people to investigate the spot and map out the birch stumps along East Ravine Road. If it seems like the ground may have been left undisturbed, it might be worth trying to get the necessary permissions. Just don't try to dig without permission. The site appears to have remained relatively undisturbed over the past 30 years, and the casque may be recoverable. We now have a Proposed Solution for Image 11 and Verse 3.
We now need people to investigate the spot, get the necessary permissions, and do the digging. The site has no aesthetic or historical value, so it should be easy to get approval. Let us know how it goes! Don't try it on your own though. People in Boston are understandably nervous about strangers digging holes, and the police have already been called to investigate searchers at this spot at least once. The search for Casque 12 has now narrowed to the base of a single street tree near the edge of New York Harbor. It appears that the tree may have escaped the worst of Hurricane Sandy in and the casque may still be recoverable.
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The challenge now is to find a way to extract the casque without harming the tree. The most promising strategy would be to use an air spade to loosen and remove the soil. This approach would actually help the tree by undoing decades of compaction and allowing water and air to reach the roots. If anyone knows of an arborist who might be willing to provide an air spade and handle the excavation, please contact us through this site. Only two of the 12 casques have been unearthed so far, but those experiences allow us to give some general advice to anyone who is interested in joining the hunt.
The key thing to keep in mind in solving a journey puzzle is that none of the clues after the initial starting point were meant to be interpreted by armchair enthusiasts using 's tools. There would be no point in sending people on the walk if they could simply "jump ahead" by interpreting a later clue. What this means for searchers is that, after starting along the route, all of the clues are going to be for small, innocuous features that wouldn't be mentioned in any guidebook.
There will be references to the number of steps in a staircase , or the name of a highway bridge , or the view across a lake , or the naming of paths in a community garden. What you won't see is any mention of a major tourist landmark that would have been on maps or brochures in The " compass " is not likely to be a well-known lighthouse.
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The " giant pole " is not likely to be a totem pole or other attraction. The " object of Twain's attention " is not likely to be on any list of the first hundred things one might think of after researching the life of Mark Twain. The whole point is to reward exploration and the discovery of the obscure features one can only see at "see-level. With destination puzzles the situation is reversed. Many of the clues can only be solved by poring over obscure sources in a library.
As far as we know, there is no public monument in New Orleans that includes the quotation about the St.
Armchair searchers have made great progress on these puzzles, but even the internet has its limits when dealing with Preiss's convoluted way of making connections. Phrases like " natives still speak of him of Hard word in 3 Vols " requires both some serious research and a willingness to make some jumps. By posting new theories and new discoveries in a single, ever-lengthening thread, each forum created such a backlog of unorganized material that it was impossible for anyone to keep track of what had already been found.
The thread at Something Awful, for example, started on May 31, and in less than a week had more than 1, entries.
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That thread now has more than 5, entries, making it very difficult for new people to join the search and get caught up. The goal of this wiki is to present all of the discoveries in an organized way, so that searchers can quickly and easily see what is already known about each image and each verse. There are many photo albums on Flickr and PhotoBucket where people have posted images relevant to The Secret. Some of the better ones are:. Click on the map to see an enlargement.
For more maps related to the casque locations in The Secret, go to the Maps Page. All of the hunt locations so far involve waterfront cities and, in many cases, waterfront parks. Possibly it is coincidence or possibly there is a water-related theme that no one has fully explained yet. Thanks to Austin for the updated map! It's been a month since the Travel Channel show aired on January 17th and thing are finally getting back to normal around here.
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But we've made some amazing progress over the past month and we've had some great contributions from new people who have joined the wiki and have quickly gotten up to speed. So to mark this anniversary of the "big surge," I'd like to recognize a few of our contributors who have really moved the search forwards.
Wiki user Chris Andrews did some careful investigations in Charleston and documented that a concrete slab was installed below ground level when the Maine monument was removed which is great to know but probably ends all chances of recovering the casque for Image 2. Amazingly, there is also a large and fairly clear tree trunk hidden sideways in Image 12 , but no one spotted it until wiki user Pizzoli pointed it out.
We knew that Image 6 had lots of clues for Florida, but wiki user Halla4 was apparently the first person to point out that there is a very clear alligator lurking along the edge of the big stone. People have struggled for years to understand the weird objects on the right arm of the knight in Image 3 , but it took wiki user Drumman to point out that they form the shape of the North Carolina coastline.
Palencar painted a picture of the spot with the pine tree. The squares on either side of the Golden Gate Park map in Image 1 are city blocks and the fingers are pointing at streets. But if there are only two objects above the crossed arms, and both of them are shown in a way that clearly indicates a flip, then it seems very clear that we are meant to flip the upper half of the image from left to right. And that's what makes the solution finally clear. Thanks to everyone for these and all the other insights on the wiki over the past month. I've tried to give credit where it's due in the above list, but if I got anything wrong, please let me know and I'll try to set it right.
Keep up the good work! Careful and substantive contributions are always welcome!
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Your contributions can explain a theory, but you should avoid lecturing the readers or putting down other approaches. Be sure your contributions are always professional, courteous, and helpful to the search. And, of course, remember that what you add may end up getting changed or removed by another wiki editor. That's how the wiki process works. If you want to add to this wiki, but you aren't sure where to start, please check our To Do List.
If you want to add to this wiki, but you're nervous about using the wiki editing system, feel free to play around and experiment in the sandbox page. This page has been viewed times. To turn text into a link, highlight the text, then click on a page or file from the list above. The image I enhanced to dpi was indeed done via photoshop, but was made up of around 30 different layers to enhance the existing art i.
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These dots can then lead to seeing things that are just not normally visible i. So basically you have to ignore these items as they are just the dots from the press where more ink is dispersed. Then on top of that, we have the scans, when scanning like this we get what we call moire effect Which I tried to reduce in image 1 at dpi, there are several techniques to remove it in Lightroom the moire effect produces lots of colored lines again, leading to images that just do not exist in the original image when zooming in.
So I would really recommend that we should just view the dpi images without zooming in too much and just look at the clues that are obviously visible. Can we reach out to the Artist somehow? That's what I thought you might have done.